I’ve been running a 5-Day Challenge Group since Monday called the Maintain Through The Holidays 5-Day Challenge. The goal of the challenge is to get women thinking about how they overwhelm themselves from Thanksgiving to Christmas and what they need to change in order to 1) take the stress and overwhelm out of the holidays, […]
Self Care
Taking Ownership Of The Holidays
Halloween is over and we are officially at the beginning of the holiday season. Well, in my mind we are. I kind of look at it like this photo a friend shared on his Facebook timeline: As soon as Halloween is over, I go into Christmas mode. Well, I guess that’s not totally true. I […]
A Really Nice Saturday
After a bunch of gross, rainy days, the weather in CT today was beautiful. It was 34° (F) when I woke up. Perfect running weather. I went for a (not fast) run. I love going for a run first thing on the weekends because the roads are so quiet. Then we headed to Wickam Park […]
I’m Bringing Back Sunday Dinner
With the craziness of our weeknights, I really want to bring back the Sunday night dinner whenever I can. Tonight I did. I had planned out dinners for the week last Monday, and I had everything I needed already. Here’s what was on the menu tonight: Roast chicken: (I used this recipe from Allrecipes.com. Everyone […]
Making Time And Decluttering My Brain
One of the things I work a lot on with the members of Not Your Average Fitness Course is using time effectively and finding time in the day to exercise (because lack of time is one of the biggest reasons women give for not making exercise a part of their routine). Recently I have been […]
Monday Is The New Sunday
Now that it’s October we have entered swim meet season which means that 1-2 weekends per month will be spent at the pool. Number 6 also started wrestling this year, and he will have wrestling meets — do they call them meets? or are they matches? — on the weekends starting in a month or […]
